The curtain came down Saturday on the Massac County Patriots golf team at Salem Country Club.

After winning their ninth straight Class AA regional tournament, held Tuesday at the Links at Kokopelli in Marion, the Patriots finished three strokes shy of moving on to state tournament action. Centralia won the sectional with a team score of 311, Springfield High took second with 317 and Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin was third, and last to move on, with 320.

Massac shot 323 in their last competition of the year. Massac also had no one make the cut-off score of 76, so no individuals from Massac are still playing.